This has to be included as one of the dirtiest "winter" storms for quite some time.

Everything including Kitchen, bath and laundry tubs Sunday night there we had at least four good bolts of lightning but didn't hear thunder.

Yesterday I was able to clear off the driveway and walkway with the help of my snowblower but it was difficult work even for the machine. It didn't stall it but the compacted wet pellet mix was much too dense for the design of the augers to throw.

Rain was still falling yesterday here, I hope EC will include Monday precipitation into these tallies:

A MAJOR WINTER STORM STRUCK SOUTHERN ONTARIO OVER THE WEEKENDSERIOUSLY AFFECTING TRAVEL AND CAUSING NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES DUE TOFALLING TREES AND WIRES. HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE WEATHER THAT THESTORM HAS PRODUCED IN SOME PLACES. TOTAL PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS AREFROM EARLY SATURDAY MORNING UNTIL 6 PM SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

A major low pressure system has brought extended periods of freezing rain to areas of southern and central Quebec. The freezing rain has changed to rain over western portions but continues to the east. The system will continue moving eastward and will affect eastern Quebec this evening and Tuesday.

The following is a summary of weather event information received by Environment Canada.

1. Summary of duration of freezing rain:

Gatineau : 12 pm to 5 pm April 15 7 pm April 15 to 6 am April 16 8 am to 10 am April 16 Montreal : 1 pm to 10 pm April 15 1 am to 5am April 16 7 am to 10am April 16 Mirabel : 3pm to 11pm April 15 2am to 4am April 16 7am April 16 and persisting Trois Rivieres : 4am to 5am April 16 a brief period around 10am April 16 Quebec City : 6am to 11am April 16

Please note that this summary may contain preliminary or unofficial information and does not constitute a complete or final report.

End/QSPC

so according to this, for Toronto and Hamilton, had this been an all ZR event it would have nearly equalled 1998, in half the time, scary.

I'm 90% sure. Hard to get a snow storm once May 1st comes, and the next 10+ days after Thursday look good. I think I saw an accumulating snowfall once in May a long while back, but it melted when the sun came up.

Well , what a mess that storm was . This area received an easy 10-15 cm of ice pellets followed by 5cm of light snow then heavy rain making the ice/snow turn into concrete . Due to my work schedule I was un able to keep up with the driveway clearing thus making it a first time ever where I was unable to get in my own driveway without getting stuck . Still today it is impassable , what a mess........Come on warm temperatures.